X startup times: Jaunty vs. Moblin

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:30:06AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:47:57PM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:41:22PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 16:47 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The "white" intel driver points 93 messages total.  The "black" one prints 603
> > > > messages.  3 modelines vs. 82 modelines.  Something is definitely very
> > > > different here.
> > > > 
> > > > Any chance you could try swapping in their intel_drv.so?
> > > > 
> > > Sure.
> > > 
> > > Attached.
> > > 
> > > The startup time is the same, but since their intel driver enables UXA -
> > > this brings compiz to a crawl and the rest of the boot takes a few
> > > seconds longer as a result.
> > 
> > The intel section of the log is still completely different from the moblin
> > log.  It seems to do the same thing over and over.  Is there anything in the
> > moblin xorg.conf?
> 
> No I doubt there's anything unusual in the xorg.conf.
> 
> The sequence of monitor probe stuff starting at 5.x seconds looks like
> xrandr calls, almost certainly from some client program rather than from
> X itself.  Perhaps those are from gnome-settings-daemon?  Do you have a
> ~/.config/monitors.xml on one system but not the other maybe?

Good point.  I thought this was just the server startup, but I suppose it's
starting the desktop as well.  In that case, there's only about a 1.5-second
difference:

[    2.748010] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found
[1 sec: 176762 usec](--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found

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 - mdz